[FILE IMAGE]: Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube speaking during an event. Education activist Hendrick Makaneta has commended the Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, for launching the Funda Uphumelele National Survey (FUNS), which is a study that measures early‑grade reading outcomes across eleven official languages. FUNS has been launched in Pretoria and provides the first…
Joint media briefing by MEC Wessels Morweng and Major General Patrick Asaneng on the 2024/25 safer festive season campaign report. 1 minute The North West province has recorded a 3,9% decrease of crime in the third quarter of the 2024/25 financial year. Provincial MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management, Wessels Morweng accompanied by Acting…
1 minute Senior members of the Zulu Royal Family, including siblings of the late King Zwelithini, are briefing the media on the ongoing power struggles within the Royal Family. LIVE STREAM:
Sign showing a road closed 1 minute Gauteng Traffic Police are notifying road users of the closure of Soweto Highway, Golden Highway, Nasrec Road and Booysens Road from this afternoon until at least tomorrow after the prayer session. The closures are due to the national prayer event to be held on Sunday at the FNB…
[File photo] 3 minutes The Lebombo Port of Entry in Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, is getting an influx of travellers from Mozambique. Most of them are Mozambican nationals, who work in this country. Border Management Authority officials and the police are on the ground keeping an eye out for any illegal crossing on the border line. Some…
ASAPH believes in collaborations and hardwork to perfect his career and can testify on the benefits of working with other artists. MULTI-AWARD-WINNING creative and radio personality, Tafadzwa Tarukwana, aka ASAPH’s breathtaking performance at the Bulawayo Centre last Saturday, took film lovers to another level of enjoyment as they listened, danced while singing along to his…
Boxers Mike Tyson, Jake Paul, Katie Taylor, and Amanda Serrano attend a news conference, ahead of their postponed professional fight which was set to take place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. 2 minutes Streaming platform Netflix was down for thousands of users in the United States late on Friday, outage tracking website Downdetector.com said, just…
Smoke rising from an Eskom power station The Department of Electricity and Energy says Eskom’s financial position remains solvent. Senior officials from the department briefed Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on among others, the third quarter financial performance for 2025/26 of entities it oversees. The department’s Deputy Director-General for Energy Enterprises Dr Kubeshnie Bhugwandin added that liquidity…
Emfuleni Local Municipality Mayor Sipho Radebe. Emfuleni Local Municipality Executive Mayor in Gauteng, Sipho Radebe, has written to African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General, Fikile Mbalula, seeking intervention after the party’s regional office bearers of the Sedibeng Region asked him to resign. In a letter dated 10 February 2026, Radebe says he was asked to step down over ongoing…
File | Thermometer on a hot day in the coast. Large numbers of people have been flocking to the beaches of Cape Town, which is in the grip of a heatwave. The South African Weather Service (SAWS) says record-breaking temperatures have persisted across parts of the Western Cape this week. Temperatures of over 40 degrees…
